Saints banking on Superdome advantage on the Road to Superbowl LIII

NEW ORLEANS — The Saints think there’s something special about the Mercedesbenz Superdome at the postseason, which is difficult to argue with the numbers.

The Saints are 5-0 at postseason games at the Superdome at the coach Sean Payton era, compared to 1-5 on the street (maybe not counting neutral site games), at the exact identical time period. In the event the path to the Super Bowl goes through New Orleans, the Saints will be a challenging competitor to conquer.

“It’s wild. It’s lively. “In my point of view, I love it. I like to appear back at the crowd from behind the seats and see people screaming and going crazy, jumping. I love it, man.”

But why, exactly, is it like that?

The Superdome certainly isn’t the fanciest stadium, because it’s the seventh-oldest NFL stadium currently in use. It’s technically not the loudest, even though it stands up there on its greatest days.

A 2013 attempt to place the record world’s loudest indoor stadium failed if the sound level got to just 122.6 decibels, short of the record and well short of the 136.6 which has been registered in Seattle’s Century Link Field that exact same year.

“I believe that it’s the essence of the crowd,” Armstead said. “It’s the people who have been in the crowd. … Some people today wake up and get their daiquiris going. … It’s the men and women in the crowd in New Orleans which produce our do-me this advantage.”

Saints tight end Benjamin Watson place the Do Me up with Seattle’s scene and the old RCA Dome in IndiaNapolis among the loudest in the league.

“It’s probably, other than a number of these SEC games at college, it’s definitely the loudest NFL stadium,” he said.

There was a time when the Dome wasn’t much of an benefit of as Payton immediately pointed out. In recent years before he arrived, the Saints were defeated at home. These weren’t just pitched at home during non-playoff years in 2014-2016, either, also Payton are the first to admit that.

“it is a difficult spot to play with when you have a great team,” he highlighted. “But if you went back and looked at the records at the do me ahead of’06, 35, 3-5, 4-4, 3-5, 35 with the playoff triumph. Perhaps not too long back, it wasn’t too tough a spot to play with once we were struggling. I think part of that is what sort of team you’re fielding so when you secure the combinations of a fantastic team and then the crowd noise and you have some thing. I think a great deal is because of the talent amount of your soccer team”

As soon as the Saints have reached their best, the Dome is an incredibly tough venue for an opposing team. New Orleans went 6-2 at home during the regular season. There’s no denying that the talent level with this team, which travelled 13-3 overall and got the NFC’s No. 1 seed for the playoffs.

The 2009 Saints, the only team in franchise history to gain an Lombardi Trophy, played with two games at the Superdome at the postseason, soundly beating the Cardinals 45-14 and beating against the Vikings 31-28 in overtime to advance to the Super Bowl.

The Superdome was special that year, also Watson, afterward an associate of The Patriots, recalled coming in to play with there on Monday Night Football earlier that year. It was so loudly he could hardly hear his team mates next to him. The Saints walloped that The Patriots, 38-17.

“It’s sort of a symbiotic relationship at which, of course when the fans are into it, and we emerge and go three and out, and the shield lets them drive all of the way down the area, then it’s not likely to be intimidating of an atmosphere,” Watson said. “But should we turn out, score a touchdown or 2, the shield makes a stop, then it sort of creates the avalanche which makes it rather difficult for opposing teams to enter.”

Added defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins:”We know how special it is to play with there. We know the benefit it provides us with all the sound level. When teams come here, into a degree they gotta simplify things. They can’t come here with a whole lot of exotic important term and a whole group of things to say. As it’s damn near impossible for us to communicate because of defense, not to mention an crime attempting to sit up there and check things with four seconds to the clock. Therefore it can help us. We love it sometimes we hate it, because we can’t communicate . But we had much rather have that than a silent place.”

In the event the team are on very top of its game, then the crowd will soon likely be well.

“You can truly have a crowd going crazy, however, you’ve got to let them have reasons to to crazy. You have to let them have a reason to celebrate,” Armstead said. “But the do me is a bonus, for sure. I wouldn’t attempt to counteract it.”

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